Shoe-lace tip



June 5, 11923.

C. S. WOLF, SR

SHOE LACE TIP Filed Aug. 10 1921 Patented June 5, i923 CHARLES S. WOLF, $33., OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.

SHOE-LACE TIP.

Application filed August 10, 1921. Serial No. 491,232.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. VVoLr,

Sit, a citizen of the United States, residing at Houstomin the county of Harris and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Shoe-Lace Tip; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object or" the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and durable tip for shoe laces and laces for other purposes, and particularly to provide a tip which not only may be more readily attached to the end of the lace but which is not subject to detachment under conditions which displace the ordinary tip, and which in the event of the breakage of a lace can be removed from the detached portion and attached to the end of the remaining body portion without inconvenience or loss of time and without requiring any special treatment, and hence may be accomplished by the user; and with these objects in view the invention consists in a construction and arrangement of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view of an end of a lace adapted for shoes and similar garments provided with a tip constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged detail sectional view of the tip.

Figure 8 is a view of a modified and simplified construction of the tip.

The improved tip consists of a twisted body portion 10 reduced to a penetrating or entering point at 11 and having an integral attaching eye 12 at the other end to receive the extremity of the lace 13 which may be secured in place by stitching or otherwise.

In the construction illustrated in Figures 1 and Qthe tip consists of intertwisted nieinbers each of which consists of a plurality of strands so that the eye 18 consists oi a plurality of strands; whereas in the construction illustrated in Figure 3 the intertwisted members consist respectively of a single strand. It should be understood that to adapt the tip to various uses any desired number of strands may be employed in the intertwisted members thereof, and that the resulting article is strong and substantial and may readily be attached to the extremity of a lace as shown.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is A lace tip consisting of a plurality of strands twisted together to form the body of the tip and with each strand formed into an eyelet at one end of the bony, said eyelets being of substantially the same width as the body and in flat contact whereby a lace may be passed through both of the eyelets and fastened about the same without undue increase in the cross-sectional area of the lace and with the strain equal on each strand.

, In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WM. W. THOMAS, T. BELLATI. 

